Pikuma PS1

A rest from the usual.

Dependencies

I will be programming from a Windows 11 machine:

# not really used yet for scripts (may never)
scoop install lua

armips

• Supports doing bare-metal assembly for the ps1
• scoop install armips or just clone and build..

pscx-redux: A collection of tools, research, hardware design, and libraries aiming at development and reverse engineering on the PlayStation 1.

• Used as the runtime sandbox emulated the ps1
• Has hookups to behaving as a gdb server which can be utilized with the gdb client in vscode.
• Supports symbolic info emitted by armips
• pysq library has been sucessfully adjusted for modern compiler usage (see: src/)

MIPS Toolchain (from pscx-redux)

• Used for building ps1 programs for the C runtime provided by the psyq/o SDK

nugget

• Readonly mirror of pcsx-redux's src/mips directory.
• Not necessary if the pcsx-redux repo is cloned

PSX Psy-Q SDK (supplied by psx.arthus.net)

• Original official SDK
• Modernized using obj parser to extract info for GNU toolchain usage.
• Can either grab from arthus psyq-4.7-converted-full.7z or psyq-4_7-converted-light.zip
  • The light version omits the link modules (object files), just keeps the static archives.
• Can be utilized effectively with the includes below

psyq_include_what_you_use

• Fixes psyq headers to include what they use, so changing the include order in your project doesn't break compiling.
• Needed if you want to link and utilize the psyq C SDK

Other toolchains (not used here)

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